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Life
This life
Each moment
Tailor-made
Perfection bound.

Needs must
Debts paid
Doors open
Light enters

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Is abu nuwas still around? what a thread!
following a bot, I stumbled upon this gem of an old thread: https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-12325.html

abu nuwas being right as usual in dismissing that fraud Ezra Pound

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Don't press send.
These days boys stay at home,
in their room, computer going,
talking to some AI friend,
taking pictures
and pressing send.


They should be at the swimming hole,
or by the river with a fishing pole.
Hanging out, maybe smoking weed,
playing records
and building dreams.


Hey kids,
that pretty gal on your computer scree...

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Needs Adjustment
Needs Adjustment


Water rattles in the sink,
ice cubes avalanche in freezer;
wind-whipped branches saw on siding,
rain drum-serenades the roof.
Passing truck-tires lion-bellow,
wet shoes porpoise-squeal on floors;
voices blare from distant tables,
I hear birds no eye can spy
chirping loudly under gables:
hearing aid is set too h...

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Walls
Walls


Do good, O Lord, unto Sion in thy good pleasure,
and let the walls of Jerusalem be builded.
Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

These great big stones give way to bricks give way
to sand, aggregate, water, and cement
poured into lattices of carbon steel

topped with more steel---this time squeezed into wires
t...

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